President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita

• 

  Mali President Announces Resignation On State TV After Military Coup

  Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita announced his resignation with immediate effect in the early hours of Wednesday morning, a day after rebel soldiers launched a coup.

• 

  Mali's President Announces Resignation After Rebel Troops Launch Coup

  Mali's president said he was resigning to avoid "bloodshed" early Wednesday, hours after his arrest by troops in a sudden coup that followed a months-long political crisis in the fragile West African nation.

• 

  Accidental Hero: The Muslim Who Saved Jews In Paris Attack

  Lassana Bathily was an undocumented migrant from Mali until he became an unlikely hero by saving shoppers' lives during the jihadist attack on a Jewish supermarket in Paris a year ago.

• 

  Mali Hotel Reopens After Deadly Islamist Siege

  Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on Tuesday hailed the reopening of a luxury hotel at the centre of a deadly Islamist attack, saying it was a victory over the scourge of jihadist violence.

• Mali's President Recalls French Help Against Insurgency at Paris Rally

  Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita said Sunday his participation at a massive rally in Paris against terrorism carried special significance as it came exactly two years after French troops launched an offensive against Islamists in his country.

• Mali President Names Modibo Keita as New Prime Minister

  Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita named a former Head of government, Modibo Keita, as the new Prime Minister on Thursday after the previous government resigned, state television said.

• 

  No More Ebola Cases in Mali: President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita

  Mali has no more confirmed cases of Ebola after the last patient known to be suffering from the virus was cured, President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita said on Saturday.

• France Calls for 'Immediate' Release of Mali Hostages

  French President Francois Hollande on Monday demanded the release of top civil servants and others taken hostage in Mali's north after deadly clashes between separatists and the army.

• Former Prime Minister favourite for president as Malians vote to end crisis

  Former Prime Minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keita was the favourite to win a presidential election on Sunday that Malians hope will restore stability in a country torn apart by last year's coup and Islamist insurgency.

• Mali heads to the polls to elect new president

  Malians will go to the polls Sunday in their millions for a president expected to usher in a new era of peace and democracy in the first election since a military coup upended one of the region's most stable democracies.